CVE-2007-0451
Apache SpamAssassin before 3.1.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via long URLs in malformed HTML, which triggers "massive memory usage."
02 Description
Apache SpamAssassin before 3.1.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via long URLs in malformed HTML, which triggers "massive memory usage."
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 6.86% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-02-16 19:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 12:19Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-01-23
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d1cfc531768ecd61ea65ab972824f27da4f1878a0b41a9b652a913c444f73843
05 Affected products
06 References
- spamassassin.apache.orghttp://spamassassin.apache.org/advisories/cve-2007-0451.txt
- secunia.com24200http://secunia.com/advisories/24200
- issues.rpath.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1073
- secunia.com24889http://secunia.com/advisories/24889
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2007:049http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:049
- secunia.com24265http://secunia.com/advisories/24265
- fedoranews.orgFEDORA-2007-241http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2659
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2007:006http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10018https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10018
- fedoranews.orgFEDORA-2007-242http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2657
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-0628http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0628
- www.securityfocus.com22584http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22584
- secunia.com24250http://secunia.com/advisories/24250
- www.securitytracker.com1017666http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017666
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2007:0074http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0074.html
- secunia.com24256http://secunia.com/advisories/24256
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comspamassassin-url-dos(32536)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32536
- osvdb.org33207http://osvdb.org/33207
- secunia.com24197http://secunia.com/advisories/24197
- svn.apache.orghttp://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/branches/3.1/build/announcements/3.1.8.txt
- secunia.com24307http://secunia.com/advisories/24307
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200703-02http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-02.xml
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2007:0075http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0075.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- spamassassin Fixed in 3.1.7-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- spamassassin Fixed in 3.1.7-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- spamassassin Fixed in 3.1.7-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.